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Flashy vs. Simple Websites: Does One Lead to Better SEO?

It’s easy to get carried away when creating your website because A). Creating a website is fun, and B). There are tons of different options available when it comes to customizing your site. However, it’s important to make sure that you don’t go overboard and create something confusing and overpowering. If your website is too...
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WordPress Attacks: Time To Wake Up

(click image for larger view) If I wrote a Security 101 story in light of this news — outdated WordPress sites are used to launch malicious attacks on other websites — it would go something like this: Use strong passwords. Stay current on software updates and patches. Educate employees on security risks and fundamentals. Use...
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Google Is Far From Losing the War Over Social

Andrew Kelly / REUTERS Google’s social network, Google+, is more popular than Twitter. Every month, nearly 390 million people worldwide use the service to post messages, make video calls and endorse search results by clicking on a so-called +1 button. And yet, two years after its launch, Google+ is still a work in progress. Yes,...
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WordPress Content Marketing Plugins

If you’re using WordPress for your small business website, you have access to thousands of WordPress content marketing plugins that can enhance your site’s functionality and effectiveness. Nearly all companies engage in some form of content marketing. Whether you maintain a business blog, post articles on your website, use social media or combine these methods,...
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SEO Reporting: It’s Time We Get Away From Minutia & Focus On What Matters

For SEOs, reporting hasn’t exactly been easy over the past few years. How we measure and how we strategize has had to evolve as Google has altered or retired the tools we use or the way search works. We’ve seen five main shifts that have truly changed how we originally measured SEO success, and I...
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Google in Deal to Settle Europe’s Antitrust Case

The tech giant escaped serious antitrust action in the United States early this year, and in April it dodged a hefty penalty in Europe. The third piece of good fortune — from Google’s standpoint, at least — came on Tuesday. The European Union’s antitrust chief, Joaquín Almunia, announced that in his inquiry into Google’s search...
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WordPress Site Hacks Continue

WordPress installations sporting known vulnerabilities continue to be compromised by hackers and turned into distributed denial of service (DDoS) launch pads. That warning was sounded last week after IT professional Steven Veldkamp shared an intrusion prevention system (IPS) log with Hacker News, which found that a single 26-second DDoS attack against a site run by...
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Link-Assistant.Com, SEO and SMM Software Provider, Announced a Price …

SEO PowerSuite – the most cost-effective toolkit for website promotion! Launched in 2005, the Link-Assistant.Com’s line of SEO tools evolved from a single link building app to four fully-fledged SEO tools united under the brand SEO PowerSuite. Now, the toolkit offers unique functionality and handles all important SEO tasks. Minks, Belarus (PRWEB) October 01, 2013...
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Google’s UK division paid £12m in corporation tax in 2012

Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, has repeatedly said that Google pays the tax it is required to by international law. Sources at the company say politicians should set tax rates, and should consider Google is located in Ireland, in part because of its attractive tax regime. Google points out it has made a £345m property...
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Tweaking Image Compression In WordPress And Other Handy Tips

Seasoned web developers know there’s more to WordPress than a blogging platform and if you’re willing to get your hands dirty, you can tweak it enough to do just about anything. Smashing Magazine’s Daniel Pataki has been around the block with this flexible collection of PHP scripts and has come away with quite the collection...
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